it feels like monday.
and the weather has been overcast
for three days. which makes me feel
all bleah and lethargic.
i’m taking solace in my Fury edits.
will be reading the prose aloud. i highly
recommend this to writers. it allows you
to hear things (redundancies, stilted dialogue,
awkward prose) that you normally wouldn’t
notice while simply reading.
i’m also having instant ramen for [...]
Category Archives: revising
fighting the gloom
July 6, 2010 – 11:04 am
tgifbm! feel the love, baby!
July 4, 2010 – 2:31 pm
like everyone else, i have a pretty busy
weekend filled with secret project, meeting
with wonderful writerly peeps like martha flynn,
reading by the beach and hanging out with family.
i have had so many readers let me know how much
they love Silver Phoenix and looking forward to
Fury. i’m touched and a little overwhelmed. (or a lot. =)
so i [...]
fury of the phoenix cover revealed!
June 30, 2010 – 8:56 am
i’m very excited to finally share the cover
for Fury of the Phoenix, my sequel to Silver Phoenix!
wait cindy, you say, this looks different from your
debut cover. a lot different.
i know. i know!
both the Silver Phoenix paperback
(out on feb. 1, 2011) and Fury of the Phoenix
(out april 2011) have been repackaged. it’s
something that isn’t at all [...]
rock paper tiger!
June 27, 2010 – 7:05 pm
a few weekends ago, i was very happy to attend
my friend, lisa’s, signing at Mysterious Galaxy
for her debut, Rock Paper Tiger.
it’s gotten great press and critical reviews!
American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out
in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member
of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of
boyfriend Lao [...]
how do you know?
June 16, 2010 – 3:36 pm
i’m in between revisions again and more
than a little obsessed with Fury of the Phoenix.
it’s a fantastic all-consuming a little maddening
feeling. i write in my head constantly, am thinking
of plot and scene and dialogue and character.
and god knows what’s getting lost sometimes
due to The Hole in My Head. but i think i retain most
of it, [...]